Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlos Reis Plus de Vin
Plus de Vin, Carlos Reis On Google Art Project; downloadable large file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation. In this loosely rendered and fascinatingly dark composition, it’s evident that the wine was more in demand than the fruit.
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Joseph Todorovitch
Joseph Todorovitch is a California painter who works primarily with figurative subjects, though these often include elements of interiors, still life or landscape. Todorovitch has a refined, restrained approach to value and color, as well as a subtle sense of the use of edges; elements that together give his paintings both a quiet power and…
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Kendyll Hillegas
There is something direct, un-fussed with and visually charming about the approach Boston based illustrator and artist Kendyll Hillegas takes in her representations of commonplace objects, most notably food items. Hillegas works in a combination of pencil, watercolor pencil, colored pencil and gouache, as she describes in this post and video from her Tumblog. Her…
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Colin Page (update 2014)
Maine based painter Colin page, who I wrote about back in 2007 and 2008, paints crisp, bright landscapes and still life, with a painterly touch and often a high-chroma palette. His paintings of Maine’s rocky coast, small harbors and the surrounding landscape are set in strongly geometric compositions, which you can choose to read either…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederick Sandys’ Grace Rose
Grace Rose, Frederick Sandys On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art.
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One stroke dragon tails
These videos on YouTube show an interesting approach to brushwork, in which the artist varies pressure on a large loaded brush to make a stylized dragon’s tail in a single stroke — albeit a slow one. There are several videos, but they lack identification for the artist, and though the style and approach is similar,…